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> "Cheuvreux analysts as saying that dispite these rumours, they still feel a collaboration with Google would be more probable for Carrefour than an acquisition by Amazon." I wonder why they think that? What could collaboration with Google bring?
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The thing that really worries me, as a EU citizen (Italian), is Amazon cheating on taxes through Luxembourg. If we continue this way, Luxembourg and Ireland will end up stealing all corporate taxes from all of the rest of the EU. EDIT: I thought it was Ireland, in this case it was Luxembourg.
Are they cheating, or are they using the EU as it is intended to be? I mean sure, they may not be paying any taxes though Ireland doesn't seem to get much of them either.. perhaps its time to change the EU somehow, to prevent this?
PS I fixed my comment, I thought it was Ireland but in this case it was Luxembourg.
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Might be for the way American do groceries, and usually in Europe people are way more attracted by local, smaller scale stores and buy food almost exclusively day by day. So no, something like Costco where you can buy everything at 10x the scale to save some bucks might not be as appealing for the european market, which is more into local, healthy alternatives, despite being more expensive. source: I lived half my li…
I really love and prefer the way grocery shopping is done in Europe, but it's fairly contingent on the ubiquity of those small grocers. In the US, a much larger / lower population density country, physically getting to a grocery on a daily basis isn't practical. I don't see this as being about "healthier alternatives" or "saving a few bucks." I can't do European-style grocery shopping in the US /despite/ my preferenc…
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Yup, but the german groceries market is about the fiercest on the planet, price is king and the populace isn't easily wooed by additional service if it comes at a premium. Walmart couldn't compete with neither Aldi nor Rewe or anything in between.
There's an Aldi literally right next door to a Walmart about 5 minutes from me in the US. Anecdotally, there never seem to many cars in the Aldi parking lot while Walmart is usually pretty busy. Personally, I stuck my nose in the Aldi once and pretty much decided after a couple of minutes there wasn't anything in there I'd go to a separate store to buy.
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Unfortunately, as a mere customers, it's not up to you or me.
It's not up to you where to shop?
It's also unlikely that a noticeable amount of customers will care, as people generally don't shop groceries based on which corporation owns what.
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Might be for the way American do groceries, and usually in Europe people are way more attracted by local, smaller scale stores and buy food almost exclusively day by day. So no, something like Costco where you can buy everything at 10x the scale to save some bucks might not be as appealing for the european market, which is more into local, healthy alternatives, despite being more expensive. source: I lived half my li…
I really love and prefer the way grocery shopping is done in Europe, but it's fairly contingent on the ubiquity of those small grocers. In the US, a much larger / lower population density country, physically getting to a grocery on a daily basis isn't practical. I don't see this as being about "healthier alternatives" or "saving a few bucks." I can't do European-style grocery shopping in the US /despite/ my preferenc…
Why would I, as a European, want to buy my groceries from an American company? It's not like the big shopping malls like Walmart or Costco are so appealing. Surely we can manage a suitable groceries network on our own.
Your comment points to the fact that the globalisation project we've embarked on for close to 70 years is either sick or dying... What does it matter if the company still employs Europeans and supports local economies?
Carrefour is quite present in North Africa (Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia..) as well, this would give Amazon quite the global reach!